A team of Cypriot doctors from the private sector will be travelling to Libya in the next few weeks in order to examine patients that are in critical condition, in the framework of the cooperation that is being promoted between Cyprus and Libya in the medical field.
According to an official statement, Minister of Health Stavros Malas was on a two-day working visit to Libya where he discussed the possibility Libyan patients to be transferred to Cyprus for treatment as well as the possibility Cypriot doctors to perform operations in Libya especially in the fields of neurosurgery, plastic surgery, orthopedics and pediatric surgery.
In the field of Pediatric surgery, a Memorandum of Understanding has been prepared and the two countries will soon sign it. During his visit, Malas met with his Libyan counterpart Fatima Hamroush and visited medical centers in the country.